Dear Juno,
I believe that you did the right thing in keeping your baby to term, and giving it up for adoption. In a sense, it was a win, win situation.
When I first saw you walking into the clinic, I was disappointed. I thought you were going to abort your child, and after such a reckless reason for conceiving in the first place, it almost felt like a cop out. But then, you walked out of the clinic. And that was incredibly brave.
For me, there is no other topic like abortion. I usually apply two different ideals when taking sides on an issue, and that is, the highest regard for human life, and the right to freedom. And only in abortion have I found that these two ideals clash, in the most direct way. In no way do I have the answers, nor do I have a concrete stance on abortion. However, I have given this issue a tremendous amount of debate, and have formulated some opinions on the topic. On one hand, when taking away abortion, we are directly taking away a woman's freedom to choice and control of her own body. On the other, every abortion takes away a potential life from the world. In a black and white scenario, if I were to pit freedom against life, I would say that the right to life trumps the right to freedom. Using that logic, I would be pro-life. From there, I could also say that a women should have the right to abort her child If the pregnancy were to endanger her life, no matter what stage of the pregnancy (even just before birth, because at this point, we would be picking whose life is more important, and I believe that all life is equally important), and still hold true to my logic. It is past this point where my stance on abortion faces some very shaky ground. Why? Because my logic tells me that I should be pro-life, but I also realize that pregnancy and children can be incredibly crippling, and I don't feel comfortable telling a young woman, who has her whole life ahead of her, that she cannot get an abortion. I also feel very uncomfortable letting a woman who habitually gets pregnant and aborts her child continue on getting abortions.
But in any situation, I believe that the number of abortions should decrease.
I believe that your pregnancy could have been avoided very easily, and that you made a foolish decision. However, I do not believe that it was all your fault. In fact, Bleaker was being incredibly selfish by having sex without a condom, but lucky him (and guys in general), he doesn't have to get pregnant! Aside from your immature reason to get pregnant, the choice to carry the baby to term was quite opposite. In fact, I applaud your choice and admire your courage. In brutal honesty, you had to go through some rough sh*t to carry that thing all the way. And you did it. And to find proper home for your baby was arguably the best decision of all. Not only are you improving your own life, you are improving your baby's life, and the life of Vanessa as well. All in all, you made the best and hardest choice out of a sticky situation. Way to go.
Dear Juno,
I believe that you did the right thing in keeping your baby to term, and giving it up for adoption. In a sense, it was a win, win situation.
When I first saw you walking into the clinic, I was disappointed. I thought you were going to abort your child, and after such a reckless reason for conceiving in the first place, it almost felt like a cop out. But then, you walked out of the clinic. And that was incredibly brave.
For me, there is no other topic like abortion. I usually apply two different ideals when taking sides on an issue, and that is, the highest regard for human life, and the right to freedom. And only in abortion have I found that these two ideals clash, in the most direct way. In no way do I have the answers, nor do I have a concrete stance on abortion. However, I have given this issue a tremendous amount of debate, and have formulated some opinions on the topic. On one hand, when taking away abortion, we are directly taking away a woman's freedom to choice and control of her own body. On the other, every abortion takes away a potential life from the world. In a black and white scenario, if I were to pit freedom against life, I would say that the right to life trumps the right to freedom. Using that logic, I would be pro-life. From there, I could also say that a women should have the right to abort her child If the pregnancy were to endanger her life, no matter what stage of the pregnancy (even just before birth, because at this point, we would be picking whose life is more important, and I believe that all life is equally important), and still hold true to my logic. It is past this point where my stance on abortion faces some very shaky ground. Why? Because my logic tells me that I should be pro-life, but I also realize that pregnancy and children can be incredibly crippling, and I don't feel comfortable telling a young woman, who has her whole life ahead of her, that she cannot get an abortion. I also feel very uncomfortable letting a woman who habitually gets pregnant and aborts her child continue on getting abortions.
But in any situation, I believe that the number of abortions should decrease.
I believe that your pregnancy could have been avoided very easily, and that you made a foolish decision. However, I do not believe that it was all your fault. In fact, Bleaker was being incredibly selfish by having sex without a condom, but lucky him (and guys in general), he doesn't have to get pregnant! Aside from your immature reason to get pregnant, the choice to carry the baby to term was quite opposite. In fact, I applaud your choice and admire your courage. In brutal honesty, you had to go through some rough sh*t to carry that thing all the way. And you did it. And to find proper home for your baby was arguably the best decision of all. Not only are you improving your own life, you are improving your baby's life, and the life of Vanessa as well. All in all, you made the best and hardest choice out of a sticky situation. Way to go.
Regards,
PK